:: Make A Difference: Talk to Your Child About Alcohol
Full of suggestions for talking to your child about alcohol, this guide is geared to parents and guardians of youth ages 10 to 14. It outlines the risks and sheds light on the world of today’s teen. Tips and conversation starters for discussing alcohol use and abuse with youth are included as well as warning signs of a drinking problem and an action checklist.
:: Navigating the Teen Years: A Parent's
Handbook for Raising Healthy Teens
A Parent's Handbook for Raising Healthy Teens.
:: Wake Up to the Risks of Marijuana: A Guide for Parents
This brochure outlines the facts of using marijuana and offers tips on what parents can do to keep their children from using marijuana. It also includes parent responses to clear up false information about the drug.
:: Suspect Your Teen is Using Drugs or Drinking?:
A Brief Guide to Action for Parents (Early Intervention
Parent brochure)
This booklet offers parents information about talking to their teens about drug use and the steps to take to do so. Discussed are topics such as “What’s the Big Deal?” “The Science Is Clear,” “Signs and Symptoms,” “Your Teen Is at a Crossroads,” “What Do You Do and When?” “Do You Think You’ve Uncovered a Problem?” and “Parents Are the Most Important Influence in a Child’s Life.”
:: Marijuana: Facts Parents Need to Know
Provides valuable information from research on the dangers of marijuana. Gives parents explanations of the latest scientific information about the drug and suggestions on how to talk to teenagers about this drug.
:: Keeping Youth Drug Free
This guide is designed for parents and caregivers of children ages 7 to 13. It focuses on six key steps that parents or caregivers can take to help their children grow up drug-free: establish and maintain good communication with their child; get involved in their child’s life; make clear rules and enforce them with consistency and appropriate consequences; be a positive role model; teach their child to choose friends wisely; and monitor their child’s activities.
:: Helping Your Child Keep Free Time Drug-Free
With more children having more unsupervised time, it's imperative that their time be filled with constructive activities. This folder guides parents in keeping their children involved in community organizations, communicating rules of the house to a child who stays home alone, getting to know their children's friends, and setting firm rules for parties.
:: A Parents Guide To Inhalant Abuse
An introduction for parents to a form of substance abuse with which 21 percent of all 8th graders say they have experimented – some by the age of five!
The pamphlet provides a list of the behavioral and physical symptoms that suggest that a child is sniffing fumes from household chemicals, painting materials or gasoline.
The severe physical and mental effects of inhalant abuse are listed, ranging from sneezing, coughing and nosebleeds to aggression, hallucinations, paranoia, damage to brain, bone marrow, liver and kidneys; heart failure, lowered I.Q. and death.
Having provided parents much to be alarmed about regarding this growing threat to children, it suggests a course of action to reduce the likelihood that a child will experiment with inhalant abuse.
:: Helping Young People Say No to Alcohol
This pamphlet is especially for parents and other adults on how to talk with young people about the risks of alcohol use. It suggests talking with young people about the risks and setting clear limits around underage drinking. It offers tips for when and how to bring up the subject and encourages adults to be good role models.
:: Parent’s Guide To Drinking Driving & Drugs